Competences and practices in European local and regional cultural policy / study prepared by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Europe (CLRAE)

Disponible versió en francès: Politique culturelle locale et régionale en Europe: compétences et pratiques

1. Introduction -- 2. Results: 2.1. Organising culture ; 2.2. Financing culture ; 2.3. Culture and development ; 2.4. Future -- 3. Conclusions -- Sources -- Appendices: 1. Main objectives and most important functions of culture in cities and regions ; 2. Questionnaire addressed to local cultural authorities ; 3. Questionnaire addressed to regional cultural authorities -- Tables: 1. The number of local and regional replies per country ; 2. The fields of culture regulated and/or promoted through legislation according to the replies ; 3. The number of full-time workers in cultural administration in different parts of Europe (%) ; 4. The role of local and regional adrninistration in cultural policy (%) ; 5. Sources of major or important funding of various cultural sectors (%) ; 6. Sources of major, important or minor funding of various cultural sectors (%) ; 7. lmportance of various sources of funding to tbe different fields of culture in 10 countries ; 8. lmportance ofvarious sources offunding in 10 countries: values scaled to add 100 ; 9. Perceived importance of regional and local sources of funding among regional and local cultural autborities in 10 countries ; 10. Frequency of a specific cultural policy programme ; 11. Culture as a development factor in the programmes ; 12. lnternational co-operation of cities and regions (%) ; 13. Cultural policy in the future -- Figures: 1. Perceived importance of the sources of funding for different fields of culture among the local and regional authoritiés ; 2. Differences between the perceptions of local and regional level in the frequency of the national/state and regional funding for the fields of culture